GIMP
is a versatile graphics manipulation package. This page should help you
get a taste of what GIMP is capable of. You can also have a look at our
introduction page or browse through the tutorials.
Customizable Interface
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Each
task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize
the view and behavior the way you like it. Starting from the widget
theme, allowing you to change colors, widget spacings and icon sizes to
custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulized into so
called docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in
their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden.

GIMP
features a great fullscreen mode allowing you to not only preview your
artwork but also do editing work while using the most of your screen
estate.
Photo Enhancement

Numerous digital photo
imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective
distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in
the transform tools. Eliminate lens' barrel distortion and vignetting
with a powerful filter but a simple interface.
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The included channel mixer gives you the flexibility and power to get your B/W photography stand out the way you need.
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Digital Retouching

GIMP
is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unneeded
details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the
new healing tool. With the perspective clone tool, it's not difficult to
clone objects with perspective in mind just as easily as with the
orthogonal clone.
Hardware Support

GIMP includes a
very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure
and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI
controllers. You can bind often-used actions to device events such as
rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller's slider. Change the
size, angle or opacity of a brush while you paint, bind your favorite
scripts to buttons. Speed up your workflow!
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File Formats
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The
file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF,
PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and
multi-color-depth Windows icon files. The architecture allows to extend
GIMP's format capabilities with a plug-in. You can find some rare format
support in the GIMP plugin registry.

Thanks to the
transparent virtual file system, it is possible to load and save files
to from remote locations using protocols such as FTP, HTTP or even SMB
(MS Windows shares) and SFTP/SSH.

To save disk space,
any format can be saved with an archive extension such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2
and GIMP will transparently compress the file without you needing to do
any extra steps.
Supported Platforms